Isaiah 1:30

1:30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither,

like an orchard ¹  that is unwatered.

Isaiah 14:23

14:23 “I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals ² 

and covered with pools of stagnant water.

I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,” ³ 

says the Lord who commands armies.

Isaiah 21:14

21:14 Bring out some water for the thirsty.

You who live in the land of Tema,

bring some food for the fugitives.

Isaiah 22:9

22:9 You saw the many breaks

in the walls of the city of David; ⁴ 

you stored up water in the lower pool.

Isaiah 23:3

23:3 the deep waters! ⁵ 

Grain from the Shihor region, ⁶ 

crops grown near the Nile ⁷  she receives; ⁸ 

she is the trade center ⁹  of the nations.

Isaiah 28:17

28:17 I will make justice the measuring line,

fairness the plumb line;

hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, ¹⁰ 

the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

Isaiah 32:20

32:20 you will be blessed,

you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, ¹¹ 

you who let your ox and donkey graze. ¹² 

Isaiah 33:16

33:16 This is the person who will live in a secure place; ¹³ 

he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; ¹⁴ 

he will have food

and a constant supply of water.

Isaiah 35:7

35:7 The dry soil will become a pool of water,

the parched ground springs of water.

Where jackals once lived and sprawled out,

grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.

Isaiah 37:25

37:25 I dug wells

and drank water. ¹⁵ 

With the soles of my feet I dried up

all the rivers of Egypt.’

Isaiah 43:16

43:16 This is what the Lord says,

the one who made a road through the sea,

a pathway through the surging waters,

Isaiah 57:20

57:20 But the wicked are like a surging sea

that is unable to be quiet;

its waves toss up mud and sand.

Isaiah 63:12

63:12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, ¹⁶ 

who divided the water before them,

gaining for himself a lasting reputation, ¹⁷ 

[1:30]  ¹ tn Or “a garden” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:23]  ² tn Heb “I will make her into a possession of wild animals.” It is uncertain what type of animal קִפֹּד (qippod) refers to. Some suggest a rodent (cf. NASB, NRSV “hedgehog”), others an owl (cf, NAB, NIV, TEV).

[14:23]  ³ tn Heb “I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.”

[22:9]  ³ tn Heb “the breaks of the city of David, you saw that they were many.”

[23:3]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text (23:2b-3a) reads literally, “merchant of Sidon, the one who crosses the sea, they filled you, and on the deep waters.” Instead of מִלְאוּךְ (mil’ukh, “they filled you”) the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads מלאכיך (“your messengers”). The translation assumes an emendation of מִלְאוּךְ to מַלְאָכָו (mal’akhav, “his messengers”), taking the vav (ו) on וּבְמַיִם (uvÿmayim) as improperly placed; instead it should be the final letter of the preceding word.

[23:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “seed of Shihor.” “Shihor” probably refers to the east branch of the Nile. See Jer 2:18 and BDB 1009 s.v. שִׁיחוֹר.

[23:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “the harvest of the Nile.”

[23:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “[is] her revenue.”

[23:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “merchandise”; KJV, ASV “a mart of nations”; NLT “the merchandise mart of the world.”

[28:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “[the] refuge, [the] lie.” See v. 15.

[32:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “by all the waters.”

[32:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “who set free the foot of the ox and donkey”; NIV “letting your cattle and donkeys range free.”

[33:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “he [in the] exalted places will live.”

[33:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “mountain strongholds, cliffs [will be] his elevated place.”

[37:25]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew text has simply, “I dug and drank water.” But the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:24 has “foreign waters.” זָרִים (zarim, “foreign”) may have accidentally dropped out of the Isaianic text by homoioteleuton (cf. NCV, NIV, NLT). Note that the preceding word, מַיִם (mayim, “water) also ends in mem (ם). The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has “foreign waters” for this line. However, in several other passages the 1QIsa^a scroll harmonizes with 2 Kgs 19 against the MT (Isa 36:5; 37:9, 20). Since the addition of “foreign” to this text in Isaiah by a later scribe would be more likely than its deletion, the MT reading should be accepted.

[63:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “who caused to go at the right hand of Moses the arm of his splendor.”

[63:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “making for himself a lasting name.”